Rabelais Inc.

Farmer, Fannie Merritt

Chafing Dish Possibilities.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1909. Duodecimo (18.5 x 12 cm.), 161, [4] pages. Index. Later printing; originally issued 1898, just two years after the very successful launch of the author's monumental Boston Cooking School Cook Book. In publisher's gilt-titled, dark red cloth, with a small water stain to the front board. Near fine. Includes a late, but neatly handwritten poem in green ink to the free front endpaper, a......

Price: $60.00

Gould, John A

The Great Little Hot Dog Cookbook. Illustrated by Ed Nuckolls.

Garden City: Double Day & Company, Inc., 1973. Small octavo, 115 pages. First edition. A "great little" book with one hundred easy hot dog based recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and special occasions. From the Brunswick, Maine author responsible for "The Paper Back Cook Book." A fine copy in publisher's brick color cloth, in an unprice-clipped, fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Hot Dog! John Gould.".....

Price: $120.00

Item #5130 Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-dish Dainties : with thirty-two illustrations of...

Hill, Janet McKenzie

Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-dish Dainties : with thirty-two illustrations of original dishes. New edition with additional recipes.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1930. Octavo, 231 pages. Advertisements. Third edition, revised and with additional recipes. Halftone illustrations throughout, plus illustrations in the advertisements. The author's preface to the first edition notes that "Illustrations by means of half-tones were produced from photographs of actual dishes were first brought out, we think, by The Century Company; in this line however, both in the number and in the variety of the.....

Price: $60.00

Item #7154 Kitchen Essays, with recipes and their occasions, by Lady Jekyll. Reprinted from The...

Jekyll D.B.E., Lady [Lady Agnes Lowndes Jekyll]; Baynes, Pauline (illustrator)

Kitchen Essays, with recipes and their occasions, by Lady Jekyll. Reprinted from The Times.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., [1921-22]. Octavo (19 x 14 cm.), 263 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION, "dated Midsummer to Easter 1921-22" (from the preface). The essays presented here were gathered from the unsigned works published in The Times, and printed here, we're told in the preface, in response to reader requests. Agnes Jekyll, patron of the Pre-Raphaelites, and sister-in-law of the iconic gardener Gertrude Jekyll. The biographer of the.....

Price: $200.00

[Menu - The Lakewood (Lakewood, New Jersey)]

The Lakewood. H.S. Clement, Manager. Dinner... Friday, March 13, 1891.

Lakewood; New York: The hotel; The Gile Company, Lith. 1891. Printed menu (20 x 13.5 cm.), [1] page. A menu for the Lakewood, a resort hotel in the town of the same name, in central New Jersey, near but not on the shore. The meal was rather elaborate, with courses of soup, joints, entreés, roast, salads, vegetables, entremet, pastry, ice cream, desert (sic), and coffee - "the drinking water is.....

Price: $200.00

[Railroad Menu for Children - Canadien National]

Wagon-Restaurant Menu pour les Petits Enfants.

[Imprimé en Canada: Chemin de Fer National du Canada, 1928]. Booklet with menu, stapled in wrappers (15 x 11 cm.), [16] pages. FIRST EDITION. A little booklet that serves as a children's menu on board the Canadien National trains and also as an illustrated children's book telling the story, in verse, of children of various ages, traveling via the C.N.F. The attractive illustrations are printed in black, orange, and tan.....

Price: $90.00

[Shaker]; White, A.J

How the Shakers Cook, and the Noted Cooks of the Country.

New York: A.J. White, Druggist, [1888]. Duodecimo-sized booklet (15 x 9 cm.), 48 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Issued by the A.J. White company, this almanac advertised their products, which were licensed from, and in some cases, made by the Shakers. Though not indicated as an almanac on the cover, a calendar for 1889 is included. Features profiles of some of the country's top chefs of the time.....

Price: $90.00

[Trade catalogue – Refrigeration; Triumph Ice Machine Company (Cincinnati, Ohio)]

Triumph Ice Machine Company.

Cincinnati: C.J. Krehbiel & Co., 1899. Octavo in wrappers (19 x 12.5 cm.), 122 pages. Thoroughly illustrated with photographs and diagrams, numerous plates, some folding. FIRST EDITION. The second catalogue of Cincinnati's Triumph Ice Machine Company; the first catalogue, of 80 pages, was issued the prior year. A detailed and technical catalogue of the refrigeration and refrigerating machinery offered by the firm. Triumph's machinery was instrumental in growing the ability.....

Price: $500.00

[Typescript – musical book; Vall, Seymour; Greenburg, Dan]

How to Be a Jewish Mother. Based on the book by Dan Greenburg.

New York: Hart - Multi-copy printing, [1967]. Quarto-sized typescript play (28.5 x 22.5 cm.), 1-52, 2-31 pages, with some holograph corrections. The stage book based on the published book by the prolific American humorist Dan Greenburg. Originally published in 1964, Greenburg's work became the best-selling non-fiction book of 1965. The book and the subsequent musical dealt in familiar tropes of the Jewish woman, and has more recently been considered anti-Semitic.....

Price: $250.00